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InterviewDateTime

4/11/2010 17:30:00

InterviewLocation

New Orleans, LA

Venue

MobileBooth East

StorytellerA-FullName

Ward, Martha

Relationship_OfStorytellerA

wife

InterviewerA-FullName

Aseron, Frank

Relationship_OfInterviewerA

husband

Facilitator Log

3:56 In August 2004 Frank saw Martha at her book signing and decided to ask her out. She accepted the invitation because her tarot-card reader had said someone special would come into her life. 9:50 Frank remembers a picture he took of her at the French Quarter festival. 20:00 When Hurricane Katrina hit, Martha refused to leave but Frank tricked her into leaving. She let herself be convinced and trusted him, even though she did not trust herself. 26:30 When they went back to New Orleans right after the hurricane, Frank was deeply affected by seeing his house full of water. Martha, after consoling him, knew that they could live together. 34:00 Before Frank proposed to Martha he spoke with her daughter Marlow, and other family members, all of whom where afraid that Martha would say 'no.' 36:00 In the middle of their wedding preparations, a tornado hit. Somehow, the couple got through with it.

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